Battery Architect

Apple; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking an experienced Battery Management Systems (BMS) architect for the Battery Management System organization. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate product needs into BMS requirements, shepherd architecture across hardware, firmware, and software domains, and guide silicon and subsystem teams on trade-offs.

The role emphasizes leadership, system-level thinking, and collaboration with external partners to deliver next generation BMS for Apple products.

Qualifications

• Experience in a battery, systems, or related architecture role.
• Experience developing battery management solutions using embedded controllers.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross functional teams to establish BMS goals and requirements.
• Enable successful delivery of BMS systems for new Apple products.
• Lead the definition of next generation of BMS silicon chipsets.
• Guide the BMS domain teams in developing efficient and scalable solutions.
• Engage with multi-disciplinary architects to align on next generation objectives and BMS roadmap.
• Lead the team to develop an architecture decomposition with justified trade-offs between technology options.
• Tackle challenging trade-offs and analyze comparative options with quantitative value proposition assessments.

Skills

Battery architecture

Embedded controllers

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

System-level requirements

Education

MS degree

Job description

At Apple, we believe new ideas have a way of becoming outstanding products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish!Are you interested to work on the forefront of Battery Management Systems? In this role you will develop future BMS technologies with a hardworking team of engineers in a highly reciprocal and multi-functional environment. The BMS team spans across all battery-based Apple products and is looking for engineers with multi-disciplinary technology experience with strong leadership skills.

Description

The architecture group within the Battery Management System (BMS) organization is a critical and collaborative team that bridges across all cross functional teams to understand product needs to translate them into requirements for the BMS domain teams. The engagement spans across short term objectives for upcoming products as well as collaborating with the entire team to establish and pursue the long term BMS roadmap covering hardware, firmware, and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross functional teams to establish BMS goals and requirements
• Enable successful delivery of BMS systems for new Apple products
• Lead the definition of next generation of BMS silicon chipsets
• Guide the BMS domain teams in developing efficient and scalable solutions
• Engage with multi-disciplinary architects to align on next generation objectives and BMS roadmap
• Lead the team to develop an architecture decomposition with justified trade-offs between technology options
• Tackle challenging trade-offs and analyze comparative options with quantitative value proposition assessments
• This role involves minimal travel. < 5% travel

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in a battery, systems, or related architecture role.
• Experience developing battery management solutions using embedded controllers.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with customer interfacing engagement to understand their system, requirements, and problems to define a system level solution.
• Experience in collaborative environments with multiple internal and external technology partners.
• Experienced developing engineering requirement specification for BMS systems and the functional decomposition into BMS HW, FW, SW, IC solutions.
• Experienced working with silicon teams to drive BMS hardware requirements/specifications, architecture/feature trade-offs and design compliance.
• Familiar with battery management algorithms and their interaction with HW, FW, application platform systems, and manufacturing practices.
• Familiarity with detailed workings of different battery chemistries and their limitations.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $296,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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